In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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Yet food is something that is taken for granted by most world leaders despite the fact that more than half of the population of the world is hungry.
I think the Egyptian people need to restore confidence that Americans, the U.S., means what they say when they talk about democracy, rule of law.
Egypt was the first democracy in the Middle East. Women were unveiled in the 1920s. Egypt is a country of civilization, of culture. It shouldn't be suffering.
Government can supply bread, but it can't mend a broken spirit.
It is true that Egypt's attempt at democracy after the 2011 revolution encountered many obstacles in governance and infrastructure.
I used to do volunteer work in poor areas of Cairo, and people would gather their money together to get a satellite dish. You'd see them huddling around and for the first time seeing issues being debated on TV that had never been talked about before. And that is the biggest promoter of democracy you could possibly have.
The dream of democracy has long been enshrined in the hearts of the Egyptian people. It only needed awakening.
I have said democracy and freedom do not work too well if you are hungry, if you are starving.
Egypt needs to catch up with the rest of the world. We need to be free, democratic, and - society where people have the right to live in freedom and dignity.
We eat food all the time and don't really understand what goes into something like bread.
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